Assigistoe of one-half to



(No Model.)

T. BEARD.

SA'W BUCK.

No. 291,669., Pate nte d Jan. 8, 1884 I "WWII WITNESSES: INVENTORP SJQZmaJ/Za/ML" BY ATTORNEYS.

UNITED STATES ATENT FFICE.

THOMAS BEARD, OF KOKOMO, INDIANA, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO ALFRED B.WALKER, OF PLACE.

SAW-BUCK.

SPEGIFIGATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 291,669, dated January8,- 1884.

Application filed November 13, 1883.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, THOMAS BEARD, a citizen of the United States,residing at Kokomo, in the county of Howard and State of Indiana, haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in Saw-Bucks, of which thefollowing is a description.

This invention relates to that class of devices used to hold cord-woodto be sawed by handsaws; and its object is to provide means whereby astick of wood may be held from slipping longitudinally or from turningover in the saw-buck while being sawed.

To this end my invent-ion consists in plates provided with coarsesawshaped teeth rigidly secured to the saw-buck, in combination with atoothed lever pivoted thereto and provided with springs and afoot-treadle, as hereinafter described and claimed, reference being hadto the accompanying drawings, in which Figure l is an end elevation, andFig. 2 is a plan view, of a saw-buck showing my invention.

A represents the frame of the saw'buck, consisting of the two innerbraces, 13, the outer braces, O, and the cross-bars D.

E represents plates of iron or steel rigidly secured to the outer facesof the inner braces,

B. These plates are provided with coarse teeth aprojecting beyond theface of the braces within the fork formed between the two pairs ofbracesB and (J, to engage a stick of wood laid in the saw-buck. Frepresents two elbow-levers, pivoted at f to the same pair of legs whichhold the plates E. The upper ends or jaws of theselevers are bent andprovided with teeth b, as shown in the drawings, to engage astick ofwood laid, in the saw-buck; but to do this the teeth of the le- (Nomodel.)

vers must be pressed toward the stick, be cause the normal position ofjaws is out of the fork, as shown in dotted lines, being so held bymeans of springs G, connecting each lever F with one of the legs orbraces O. H is a crossbar joining the lower ends of the two levers F, toserve as a treadle upon which the foot is pressed to bring and hold theteeth I) in contact with the stick. By this means a stick of any usualsize will be seized and firmly held against the thrust of the sawwithout the necessity of being held down by the sawyers knee or footapplied upon the stick.

I am aware that a saw-buck having a toothed aw hinged upon the pivot-barwhich joins the legs, and having another toothed jaw pivoted at the topof one horn is old.

I am also aware that a toothed jaw fixed upon one horn of a saw-buckopposed by a pivoted toothless curved arm operated by a treadle pivotedat a distance from said armpivot and connected to the arm by a rod isold. These are not my invention, and I do not claim them as such.

WVhat I claim as my invention, and wish to secure by Letters Patent, is

The combination, with a metallic toothed plate fixed to the horn of onebrace of a sawbuck, of a crooked lever pivoted to the same brace at apoint below the j uncture of two crossing braces, and having a toothedarm opposing said toothed plate, a treadle fixed to said lever, and aspring to act thereon, substantially as and for the purpose specified.

THOMAS BEARD.

' \Vitnesses:

A. B. .KIRKPATRICK, N. B. SMITH.

